Part 1 - Events

By Bookclub
  • Period: to

    Civil War

    • heated debates in Boston over the abolition of slavery helped start this war

  • Undersea cable-laying successfully completed

    Queen Victoria and President James Buchanan toasted to "England and America united"

  • Telegraph had been used for more than 20 years (by the time Alec arrived in Canada)

    -telegraph part of emerging commercial infrastructure
  • Period: to

    Second wave of Industrial Revolution occurring

    -to produce technological, electrical, chemical inventions (not just mechanical)
    -10 million people came to see it in 4 months
  • Period: to

    Gilded Age